Abstracts

Monochrome photo of a shopping mall skylight.

Here are a couple of somewhat abstract film photos. The first one shows part of a skylight in the ceiling of the Cabot Circus mall in central Bristol. I took it with a Nikon F80 loaded with Adox CMS 20 film, which I afterwards developed myself in dilute Rodinal.


A deliberately out-of-focus monochrome photo of an electricity pylon.

A mile or two from where I live is a stretch of coastal path that passes directly under an electricity pylon. It was from that vantage-point I took the second photo. After capturing a couple of more conventional frames of the same subject, it occurred to me to try one that was deliberately out-of-focus, which I ended up preferring to the others. This was also taken with the F80, but using a roll of Kentmere 100 film which I sent off to a lab for development.